zipmerge - Man Page
merge zip archives
Synopsis
Description
zipmerge merges the source zip archives source-zip into the target zip archive target-zip. By default, files in the source zip archives overwrite existing files of the same name in the target zip archive.
Supported options:
- -D
Ignore directory components in file name comparisons. This option is slow for archives with many files.
- -h
Display a short help message and exit.
- -I
Ignore case in file name comparisons This option is slow for archives with many files.
- -i
Ask before overwriting files. See also -s.
- -S
Do not overwrite files that have the same size and CRC32 in both the source and target archives.
- -s
When -i is given, do not before overwriting files that have the same size and CRC32.
- -V
Display version information and exit.
Exit Status
zipmerge exits 0 on success and >1 if an error occurred.
See Also
History
zipmerge was added in libzip 0.6.
Authors
Dieter Baron <dillo@nih.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>
Caveats
zipmerge uses one open file descriptor per zip archive. If you need to merge a lot of zip archives, check your shell's file descriptor ulimit and either increase it or run zipmerge multiple times with e.g. 1000 source zip archives each time.